WE DON'T CARE YOU ABSOLUTE TWUNTS.
WE DON'T CARE YOU ABSOLUTE TWUNTS.
WE DON'T CARE YOU ABSOLUTE TWUNTS.
WE DON'T CARE YOU ABSOLUTE TWUNTS.
WE DON'T CARE YOU ABSOLUTE TWUNTS.
WE DON'T CARE YOU ABSOLUTE TWUNTS.
WE DON'T CARE YOU ABSOLUTE TWUNTS.
WE DON'T CARE YOU ABSOLUTE TWUNTS.

but I bought Dookie by Green Day when no one else had heard of them - I was about 12 and had recorded a show on ITV at about 3am. It had Longview as one to watch in the US charts and I got it on the strength of that...

upstairs at Betsey Trotwood. He did a solo set and there was probably no more than ten other people there. Suffice to say, two notable things dawned on me whilst I sat in awe at him shuffling like an Alzheimer's inflicted Ostrich
1) that this guy was going to be big
2) that I was in the presence of Satan

met them just after they released funeral, my friend said they were 'really good'. i bought the album a week later and obviously fell in love with it. i kick myself now but i kind of like it that i didnt realise i'd have made a fool of myself

I somehow became myspace friends with them about 2 years back - had been playing Time To Pretend to my friends for ages and no one took any notice, then bang they get some press and everybody bloody loves them!

since it's kind of relevant, and since this thread is populated by clueless retards whose opinions mean less to me than David Irving's anyway, this seems like the perfect place to confess my secret shame. Which is that one of the most-played songs on my itunes is by... Scouting For Girls.

Yup, had the Mountains Of Navaho single back in early 2005. Cracking little pop song. Just thought I'd get that off my chest...

Their earlier bluesy/garage stuff is so much better than Standing In The Way Of Control. I first saw them at Ladyfest Glasgow 2001 and Beth Ditto was explosive (no fat puns please). Plus, now it's difficult to get a ticket to their gigs unless you're super quick, what with the riff raff snapping them up. Can we send them on indefinite hiatus, ala Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre and Electrelane, until they come up with something good?